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Nature provided the punctuation for speakers last Sunday, as Rappahannock residents gathered at Werner and Jane Krebser’s Huntly Farm for the Piedmont Environmental Council’s Evening in the Country.
With their haunting cries, a flock of wild geese added exclamation points to the call for preservation. The backdrop of farm fields and orchards rolling up to the Blue Ridge foothills underlined the assertion that the Piedmont countryside is deserving of protection against the blight of urban sprawl now threatening clean air, clean water, environmentally sensitive wetlands and steep slopes and the agricultural base that is the mainstay of both rural character and rural economy.
“It’s awfully important that we work together. We must collaborate across this whole range,” PEC chairman Charles Whitehouse told the assembly that included government officials, citizen activists and landowners. Burgeoning development in Loudoun and Fauquier counties is going to have an impact “on places as far away as Rappahannock,” he warned. The proposed Outer Beltway, intended to relieve the bottlenecked highways of Northern Virginia, will greatly increase the growth pressures on all the Piedmont’s counties, he said, adding “nobody knows exactly where its eight lanes of asphalt will go.”
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